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Is this not the long and the short of it? With a Bricolage of logic and reasoning, a skilled artist can construct complex hypotheses to justify many t...

The concept of the self which we, in the so called western tradition, seem to cling to, is plainly a "fiction" blinding us to reality. Picture the bio...

I can become fixated. Feel free to move on. I've already been enriched. I also understand Buddhism is not your thing. But it seems, there is a place w...

Totally And, if you don't mind, add: and, a response directed at the wrong party. If you want to end suffering, end mind's constructions, and attachme...

Maybe your intial intuition followed a valid path. I'm hypothesizing your so called intuitions, to offer a point. The body is a being in itself. The b...

Given all agree that antinatalism applies uniquely to humans, and the unique human condition (that there is a "condition" most seem to agree; the natu...

That best describes it, I think. And they do so, the weavers, not by a plan or design; and, definitely not in accordance with some already determined ...

Cool. I've always thought of it in terms of Cha'an. A wealth of metaphysics and psychology even at the primary "scriptural" level, eh? I wonder if (ge...

Ok, interesting. Reminds me of the Lankavatara Sutra. It might implicitly reference the same sort of "unconscious.", no?

The thing is, the presence of some unconscious process taking place without a central authority suggests no self. It suggests that the seeming of a ce...

Yes it could. Good question. My guess, irrelevant; at least originally. Wayfarer might know.

The locality supports the illusion that there is ownership. But like a bubble in a locus of the ocean manifests seemingly separated from the ocean but...

There is another way of putting it--this essence of religion--and now, having pondered, I see that thinking my focus was beyond ethics, you were right...

Let's get this one out first. I get the sentiment. We just have to plow through. I'm learning that. Your info is invaluable, if I haven't made that cl...

You have a very helpful way of putting thoughts into perspective. I see the truth in the above clearly. That latter part is what I've been calling bei...

I agree. So it's apodictic. But I still think it is apodictic because the imaginer is already constrained by/conditioned into cause and effect. Ask a ...

Great further information. Thanks!

Very nice Firstly, sorry, but you might need to apply some imagination because I am not using words precisely, nor necessarily properly (from an acade...

I would view logic as apodictic in accordance with its own terms. Perhaps a priori, insofar as I would define a priori: a "truth" settled upon and inp...

I agree; not real; specifically not real. It might be that my reference to the Body as real, reads like an empiricist or conventional physicalist. I t...

"By investing the objective domain with a mind-independent status, as if it exists independently of any mind, we absolutize it. We designate it as tru...

Just to clarify, in case you think it makes a difference. You're right that that's what I'm wanting, but the wording makes it sound dualistic. There i...

I think it's ironic that Moore might have considered himself a champion of the external world, yet he presumes, as if it's given, that that which is p...

Thank you, you are consistently helpful. I think you accurately assessed what I am, in deed trying to do. If I recognize that I cannot get out of the ...

My apologies for putting words in your mouth. These are very helpful. Thank you. I need to look into/think these through. but this makes me wonder abo...

You're probably right. I understand the definition you provided. However, it causes me some conflicts if you're saying that reality is reality, and th...

and to argue that it is our natural "fear of death" the instinct for survival which forms the primal essence, I'd agree that would precede attachment ...

You're thinking of essence anthropological, fear of death; myth and ritual arising therefrom. And I completely agree with that. I'm thinking of essenc...

Yes, please. I am an enthusiastic gardener, but I lack the training and the tools. And yes, not this or that--though I don't begrudge their efforts; w...

I don't blame you. Moreover, you are right, that I haven't exactly described anything. At the clear-to-me risk, that in my insistence (as a courtesy) ...

In case it seemed otherwise, I wasn't intending my last reply to read as adversarial in any way. On the contrary, I thought we shared a mutual frustra...

You're killing me Vera Mont. That definition has just broadened art to include, not only American Idol, but this. Recall, in the OP, I set it up, spec...

for what it's worth, I think any inclination to act, the "veiled" in the heroism of taking responsibility to save the greater number, is rooted in the...

It already is both a tragedy and immoral. Before I'm even asked to intervene. Why should I pile immorality upon immorality and tragedy upon tragedy? I...

While I am not purporting to provide an authoritative answer; and while, I myself only prayer instinctively in moments of danger, as in, "oh God, don'...

I propose, the neurons generate "images" which trigger feelings, activity, more images. Human "consciousness" was once, like other animals, "attuned" ...

Well, good luck defining art, Mr. Webster.

From where I've been looking, that was the mistake Descartes made. Your mind does the knowing, your mind presents you with the "I" to attach the knowi...

I surrender. Art cannot be defined. Though, I still sense there is some shared intuition on the subject, it seems once expressed, objections are inevi...

You are--besides that you arrive there ineluctably by a process of fully open, free, and independent reasoning (a Herculean task; all ideas are built ...

Immediately preceding the above, you were describing your pursuit in tge analytical school. Is the above reflective of that? Or was that a follow-up o...

I think given your first premise, focusing on the afterlife, atheism is illogical. But if one were to approach the question from the perspective, not ...

You know what? I'm settling at that. It has the widest doors, and I'm all for open borders.

Even if I already knew that, I'd still ask. Philosophy is an infinite curve we can sample in unending pieces. I think the key here isn't "we can sampl...

I guess you're leaving room for philosophical dogmatism, those who adhere to a strict logic, a functional, yet constructed framework, as a preconditio...

Here's what I now think, having moved with these posts. Art is any Fictional representation presented to human senses, the sole function of which is t...

I would suggest that those images naturally trigger "pleasant" feelings. And while you referenced them to illustrate that pleasant feeling do not nece...

Very nice ...aside from that, I guess you're viewing the tax audit as, though projected "out of" Being, nonetheless Being. And, why not? You say. Corr...

I meant define it with precision. Having said that, I agree with And likely it should simply be that. Any more is too much. Let the rest of the debate...

You're right. And rather than responding to each of your points because you're right on all of them, I liked this one the most. Really, why do we ask ...